Category: Hacks

During CloudFleet development, we had some problems in finding a consistent way to install Docker in Debian Jessie on ARM (Raspberry Pi 2). Debian moved us around between mirrors a bit and then eventually settled on Docker 1.7.1 which doesn’t work on ARM (Socket operation on non-socket). Luckily, we found a nice Docker .deb package that works on ARM thanks to the Hypriot community (check the link for the latest Docker version). To use it, simply do:

After using the stock Android ICS that came with my Sensation for a couple of years and getting fed up with it crashing and being slow all the time, I decided to try out the CyanogenMod (CM) everyone was talking about. When I started with this endeavour, I was a bit overwhelmed by the amount of incoherent/incomplete resources all around. In this post, I’ll try to summarise the steps necessary to install it in a more human way to help others achieve the same goal.

For some time now, I had a pending task of converting the latin1-encoded MySQL database powering this site into utf8. I finally managed to do it after getting some advice from the kind people at a Vienna WordPress meetup.

The essence is that out of all the methods suggested in the official documentation, what worked best for me was dumping all the data to a text file, marking up and encoding it as utf-8 in a text editor and then importing it into a new database (instead of working on the production DB) that we point the wp-config.php file to after everything is verified.